[open-bibliography] Bibliography to X tool

Mon Oct 4 12:04:26 UTC 2010

Hopefully that's got people thinking. Like I said, it's a really neat 
idea, but I've got a stack of neat ideas to work on already so have no 
time to offer to this one, except to say that we'd want to make sure 
EPrints could smoothly integrate with such a system.... although I think 
it probably could out of the box.

On 02/10/10 18:16, Jim Pitman wrote:
> Christopher Gutteridge<cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Interesting idea from a drunken conversation last night; Given a
>> bibliography containing (maybe) metadata, and (maybe) URIs/URLs  you
>> could build a tool to do a best effort conversion to Endnote, BibTex or
>> "bibo/dc" etc. Using a whole bunch of strategies, from basic looking at
>> the metadata, to, for example  looking up the URL
>> <http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21605/>, seeing it's got
>> <link rel="alternate"
>> href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/21605/EndNote/ecs-eprint-21605.enw"
>> type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" title="EndNote" />
>> and using that to get the endnote version. Rather than just  generic
>> rules; you could add rules for major websites and tools.
>> I've got no time to do this, but it sounds like a useful web service and
>> a really fun open ended project.
>>      
> I agree.
> There are some existing web services which can be leveraged for this purpose (BibSonomy, CiteULike, CiteSeer, Google Scholar, ...),
> and also  many subject-specific services.
> Participants in the BKN project (url below) have written many python scripts for tasks like this.
> Mostly they are not yet adequately supported for widespread use, but I will be glad to share code and continue development with others.
> IP issues arise if the scripts are applied to proprietary or licensed sources.
> I'd love to see someone with the necessary programming expertize and management capability initiate an open source effort or manage a webservice.
> OKFN could provide the umbrella system support for this, which could be done as part of some continuation of the BKN effort.
> OKFN or some participant in this group could try to get funding for this.  I would be glad to contribute to a proposal effort,
> but do not want to take the lead.
> What I think we need to see is volunteers developing code modules for various tasks, and at least a part time manager to
> oversee the codebase and installation and maintenance as a well-documented system of webservices over that codebase.
> The critical component is that manager, who is needed for an ongoing commitment of time and effort, not just initial development.
> --Jim
> ----------------------------------------------
> Jim Pitman
> Director, Bibliographic Knowledge Network Project
> http://www.bibkn.org/
>
> Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
> University of California
> 367 Evans Hall # 3860
> Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
>
> ph: 510-642-9970  fax: 510-642-7892
> e-mail: pitman at stat.berkeley.edu
> URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/pitman
>
>
>    
>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>>
>> / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>> / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
>> / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> open-bibliography mailing list
>> open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bibliography
>>      
> _______________________________________________
> open-bibliography mailing list
> open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bibliography
>    

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248

/ Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
/ Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
/ Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/